Money
Planning & budgeting
Marketplace and burgers: What a marketer on $114,000 spends in a week
On Money Diaries this week, a media manager on $114,000 sells her belongings on Facebook Marketplace and saves for an “adult gap year”.
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Opinion
Budgeting
From Gen Z to Millennials, young Australians are truly in a mess
While it may make you uncomfortable, it’s an irrefutable fact that younger people are vastly more disadvantaged than older ones.
- by Victoria Devine
Opinion
Money psychology
Money can’t buy happiness? No, but it certainly helps
Why do we insist that specifically money doesn’t buy happiness? What’s wrong with having it both ways?
- by Paridhi Jain
Yoga and Netflix: What a speech pathologist on $75,000 spends in a week
This week on Money Diaries, a graduate speech pathologist spends on some hot yoga classes and vodka, lime and sodas.
Opinion
Financial literacy
Why you don’t need to earn lots to be good with money
You went to school, studied hard, landed a good job, and hustled for promotions. That’s the road map to financial success, right? Not so fast.
- by Paridhi Jain
Opinion
Pay
So Musk wants his former employees’ money back. Is that legal?
Can an employer ask you to pay back wages? And more importantly, should they?
- by Victoria Devine
Opinion
Budgeting
This tax time, it pays to remember my ‘guaranteed’ secret for wealth
In a few weeks, everybody will have a fatter pay packet because the tax rates are changing. Smart money managers will put the extra to good use.
- by Noel Whittaker
Opinion
Budgeting
How to streamline your costs and instantly up your income
Today, I give you an RBA-inspired budgetary boot camp to help you squeeze every penny from your finances.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Opinion
Financial planners
How to make sure you’re getting good financial advice
There’s a lot of mistrust of financial professionals, and it’s not totally unfounded, but there are ways to make sure you’re getting good advice.
- by Paridhi Jain
‘The most expensive day of my life’: What a project officer on $79,000 spends in a week
On Money Diaries this week, a 32-year-old project officer pays a 50 per cent deposit on her first home in Geelong, Victoria.
Opinion
Inheritance
You’re not entitled to an inheritance, so here’s how to ask about it
The truth is, I wouldn’t wish an inheritance on anyone, but as generations get older, it’s a tough conversation many of us are having.
- by Victoria Devine
Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/money/planning-and-budgeting